Guard du Corps

Garde du Corps (French for bodyguard ) are associations of the guard . A Garde du Corps was first set up in France in 1445 . Since the 17th century, the term was used in several German states and, for example, also in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies for some regiments of heavy cavalry , the owner of which was often the sovereign.

Prussia

In Kur-Brandenburg , the satellite guard was given the name Garde du Corps in 1692 , but was dissolved again around 1715. In 1740 King Friedrich II established a cuirassier regiment Gardes du Corps , which existed until the end of the Prussian army in 1918. (Only in Prussia was the association called Regiment der Gardes du Corps , in contrast to Garde du Corps in the other German countries.)

In the Bavarian Army there had been a Garde du Corps regiment since 1814, which was merged with the 1st Cuirassier Regiment in 1826 for cost reasons .

The Saxon Garde du Corps existed since 1620 and went under in the Russian campaign in 1812 .

The Electorate of Hesse , the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Margraviate of Baden also maintained a Regiment Garde du Corps. In the Kingdom of Westphalia and in the Kingdom of Württemberg there was an Eskadron Garde du Corps from 1808 to 1814 and from 1809 to 1815, which was uniformed similar to the French cuirassiers , but with a half-cuirass and caterpillar helmet . The Kingdom of Hanover also had a Garde du Corps regiment from 1816 until the dissolution of its army in 1866. It was housed in a mule stable on Königsworther Platz in Hanover, which was converted into barracks in 1736 . After the Prussian annexation in 1866, the King's Uhlan Regiment was garrisoned there .